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WhatsApp is one step closer to adding email address verification (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Signal

Which wants a phone #.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are working on doing away with the requirement

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

As far as I know, it would still be needed at registration, just would give you an option to hide it and thus it would stop being your main identifier.